Record and share your terminal sessions, the simple way.

Forget screen recording apps and blurry video. Experience a lightweight, text-based approach to terminal recording.

asciinema [as-kee-nuh-muh] is a free and open source solution for recording terminal sessions and sharing them on the web. Read about how it works.

Easy recording

Record right where you work - in a terminal. To start, run asciinema rec demo.cast, to end press ctrl+d or type exit.

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Copy & paste

When viewing a recording just pause the player and copy-paste the content you want. It's just text after all!

Embedding

Easily embed asciinema player in your blog post, project documentation or in conference talk slides.

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Example sessions recorded with asciinema

BionicZ88C00 1:09

untitled 0:22

Rebasing with conflicts in Jujutsu VCS 5:08

frdr (rss feed reader) 0:38

Viewing online ANSI art packs with Durview 1:47

untitled 0:10

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